F/O Leydin Killed In
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NEWS has been received that Flying- Officer Allan T. Ley din, RAAF, formerly of Papua and the Man dated Territory, was killed in flying operations in the Mediterranean on October 26, 1943. He was buried at Tobruk.
Allan Leydin went to Papua in 1933 and was employed at the New Guinea Rubber Estates at Kemp Welch. Later he went to the Mandated Territory and joined the staff of New Guinea Gold fields, Ltd., in whose employ he still was when he enlisted.
He is a younger brother of Chief PO Writer W. H. Leydin, RAN (for merly of the Papuan Administration), Flying-Officer F. J. Leydin (formerly of NGG, Ltd.), and Flying-Officer R. .S Leydin (formerly of the Northern Terri tory Administration).